The usual suspects will be featuring strongly in the House of Keys today.

In terms of the asking of questions, Jason Moorhouse (Arbory, Castletown and Malew) and Lawrie Hooper (LibVannin) are to the fore.

And bookmakers have stopped taking bets on whether the word ’embattled’ will be used in any of the coverage of the people answering some of those questions.

That is because several are directed at Education Minister Graham Cregeen and Post Office chairman Julie Edge, neither of whom can be said to have been enjoying the easiest of rides recently.

Mr Cregeen might be relieved that the questions he faces this week are not about the industrial dispute involving teachers.

But he will be called on to way whether the work on the National Sports Centre, which also comes under his remit, will be completed by the half-term holiday. So, roughly by 3.30pm on Friday.

School meals are also under the spotlight, in particular the vegetarian and vegan options. That particular question comes from Ms Edge, who gets the chance to see question time from both perspectives today.

Pay and conditions for teachers do make an indirect appearance on the agenda, though.

A written question tabled by Clare Barber (Douglas East) asks for a breakdown of teachers and their pay grades, who have accessed occupational health, staff support services and/or have been off sick with stress or anxiety in the past 12 months.

Meanwhile, Ms Edge will face more questions about sub-post office closures.

Last week she expressed frustration that she seemed to be getting a harder time about those than Mr Cregeen was over the pay dispute. Whether that will continue to be the case is another matter.

Mr Moorhouse will try to pin down an answer on the prospects for the island’s remaining sub-post offices.

He also wants to know about staffing levels at Post Office headquarters.

And we can also throw in questions, from Mr Hooper, about the possibility of home delivery of benefit and pension payments via postal services, and when current sub-post office contracts are due to end.

This is the same Mr Hooper who, when he is not questioning Ms Edge about the Post Office can often be found arguing with her in guise as one the fiercest critics of the Department of Education, Sport and Culture, of which he is member.

It is one of the happier quirks of coincidence that the seating plan of the House of Keys places them next to each other. Chances are, any frost today will not be confined to the outside,

Before we get to the legislation, we should also mention there are questions about Brexit (take that Boris, we’re not going to stop using the word), the diesel locomotive (yes, that diesel locomotive) and the proposed introduction of a community infrastructure levy, which will see Mr Hooper put to one side his arguments with Ms Edge to allow time to resume procedural and statistical bantz with Policy and Reform Minister Chris Thomas.

Today will see the introduction of the Bank (Recovery and Resolution) Bill for a first reading, although it will not be debated at this sitting.

The Bill is being promoted by the Treasury in association with the Financial Services Authority and aims to create a ’comprehensive legal framework’, in line with international standards, which will allow a failing bank to be either resolved or wound-up without losses falling upon the taxpayer.

The only other legislation is to consider a Legislative Council amendment to the Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Bill. The Bill provides for the setting up of review panels to investigate the deaths of children and the amendment would ensure that the work of such a panel, and any associated work by other organisations, would not be covered by the Freedom of Information Act.

Meanwhile, the Legislative Council is to move into full committee mode for its sitting today, while it listens to expert evidence as part of its consideration of the Domestic Abuse Bill.

It is reportedly the first time the upper chamber has gone into committee mode - which will give MLCs more flexibility on how often and in what order they speak, compared with the stricter procedural rules of debate - but it is not unheard of for LegCo to receive evidence from witnesses, one of the notable recent examples being when witnesses were called to speak during the consideration of the Abortion Reform Bill in 2018.